Zechariah of Lyon ( la, Zacharias, links=no) was the third

bishop of Lyon The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: ''Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Lyon''), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archbishops o ...

. He is recognized as a

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by both the

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and the

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. His

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is celebrated on June 28.Bernard Berthod, Jacqueline Boucher,

Bruno Galland Bruno Galland (6 March 1964, Lyon) is a French medievalist and archivist. Parcours A student at the École nationale des chartes, Galland obtained his archivist-palaeographer diploma in 1987 with a thesis entitled ''Les archevêques de Lyon de ...

, Régis Ladous and André Pelletier, ''Archevêques de Lyon'', (Lyon, éditions Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, 2012), p191 Very little is known of his life. He escaped in the persecution of 202 and succeeded

St. Irenaeus Irenaeus (; grc-gre, Εἰρηναῖος ''Eirēnaios''; c. 130 – c. 202 AD) was a Greeks, Greek bishop noted for his role in guiding and expanding Christianity, Christian communities in the southern regions of present-day France and, mor ...

as bishop of Lyon. Like most of the early bishops of Lyon, his name is of

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origin.

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